Udon and Unagi

[faerychild8]

Does anyone have any good recipes for udon? I was thinking maybe along the lines of a yaki-udon but anything would be appreciated.

Also, does anyone have a recipe for the type of sauce used on unagi or the name of it?

Comments

[zil]

I think it's usually just eel sauce. I think Anthony Bourdain went through how they make it on his show... I unfortunately can't remember the details, except that it had sugar and eel juice (heh) in it. Something like they boiled the eel and then used the broth...

[zil]

Hm, I'm looking it up and a lot of places just say it is even simpler than that:

INGREDIENTS:

* 1/2 cup soy sauce
* 1/2 cup mirin (sweet rice wine)
* 1/4 cup sugar

PREPARATION:
Pour all ingredients in a pan. Stir the mixture well. Put the pan on low heat and simmer for a couple of minutes. Remove from the heat and cool the mixture. Store the sauce in a clean bottle in the fridge.

But another place had something similar to what i had seen:

One very important ingredient of the sauce is what's left of the
eel after it has been cleaned/opened/deboned.

After the eel is cleaned/opened/deboned, put the head and the bones
over hot coal and broil until throughly blackened. Place the head
and the bones in a pot and pour in 1/4 c soy sauce, 1/4 c sake and
2tbs mirin. Simmer over low heat until it becomes a little thick.
I wouldn't put sugar in it as there's enough of it in the mirin.

Just google eel sauce recipe and you should find some stuff

[mschaos]

the real stuff that is old school uses the bones of the eel, is cooked for a long ass time and has some not so commen ingrediants (including getting the bones...most asian markets taht do carry unagi have it already smoked and deboned)

the cheat is to use a super thick teryaki glaze...

[thebiblioholic]

Search for "kabayaki sauce".

[homoshiroi]

I am fond of a more soupy (but simple) udon, something like an otsukimi-soba only with udon noodles. Atrociously nothing comes up on Google when I inquire, but I may not be looking hard enough. It's basically putting your cooked udon into a meat stock base and then arranging your preferred various meats and vegetables at the side, top with an egg for that full moon viewing sensation.